{"id":108473,"date":"2015-07-23T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T03:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=108473"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T03:19:13","slug":"560-pound-man-riding-bike-across-country-to-save-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=108473","title":{"rendered":"560-Pound Man Riding Bike Across Country to Save Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When 560-pound Eric Hites was dropped off by his dad on the side of the road in Massachusetts with his $170 bike last month, nobody believed that he\u2019d actually start pedaling across the entire country. But he had nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>And he wanted his wife back.<\/p>\n<p>At 40 years old and weighing more than a quarter-ton, Hites hit a wall in life\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/patch.com\/rhode-island\/tiverton\/560-pound-man-riding-bike-across-country-save-marriage-becomes-national-inspiration\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 560-pound Eric Hites was dropped off by his dad on the side of the road in Massachusetts with his $170 bike last month, nobody believed that he\u2019d actually start pedaling across the entire country. But he had nothing to lose. And he wanted his wife back. At 40 years old and weighing more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108474,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108473\/revisions\/108474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}